Mediaite's Tommy Christopher wants Nevada and South Carollina to upend the IA & NH results

[highplainsdem]

I really don't like the headline, but the piece is well worth reading in its entirety (and you'll need to read it in its entirety to understand part of the last paragraph quoted below).

https://www.mediaite.com/opinion/south-carolina-and-nevada-need-to-kick-the-white-states-and-the-media-in-the-teeth/

Two of the whitest states in America — Iowa and New Hampshire — play far too outsize a role in selecting the nominee for the most diverse political party in America, and it’s time for South Carolina and Nevada to put an end to that once and for all.

To be a base Democratic voter watching the first two contests on the primary calendar — and the coverage thereof — is to be filled with seething, molten, embittered rage. In the space of a few weeks, we’ve watched the preferences of our diverse coalition of voters be completely upended by a few hundred thousand white people in Iowa and New Hampshire.

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The only thing worse than being told what these people think is being told constantly that we should care about what these people think, and base the future of the free world on it. This is not a knock on Klobuchar or Buttigieg or Sanders, who should be given the opportunity to showcase the support they can earn, but not on proving grounds that are the least representative and apparently most careless places in America.

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So I would like to see South Carolina and Nevada deliver a crushing victory to Biden, and maybe a strong second-place finish to Warren, to show the media that they won’t just “come aboard” with whatever the coin-flip caucus and the eeny meeny miny moe primary decide. But I’d settle for any result that tells the Democratic Party to make sure that next time, there is no next time for these privileged states.

[Wellstone ruled]

1. People might be darn surprised as the Nevada

results and the numbers as well.

[DavidDvorkin]

2. They might well do so.

[Cha]

3. I can see why he's so enraged at the

media from what I've read on DU and what I've always known about them since 2002.

[dalton99a]

4. Who made rural whites gatekeepers of our electoral process?

It's ridiculous

[Skya Rhen]

5. Yes!